POLEMONIACE/E. X. Corroura. 
mag. 2894.) plant erect, branched, rather downy at top; leaves 
oblong-lanceolate, entire, shining, ciliated with glands ; calyx 5- 
cleft, villous, glandular; corolla ventricose ; limb spreading ; 
cells of capsule I-seeded. ©. H. Native of North-west America, 
in the country bordering on the river Columbia; and as far east- 
ward as the Rocky mountains. Stem purple. Heads of 
flowers hemispherical, pruinose, clammy. Corollas like those 
of C. linearis, of a peculiar reddish yellow, or nankeen colour. 
Great-flowered Collomia. Fl. Ju. Oct. Clt. 1826. Pl. 14i 
to 2 feet. 
5 C. ceirroipzs (Benth. in bot. reg. under no. 1622.) leaves 
pinnate; leaflets linear, entire; calyx deeply 5-cleft; stamens 
inclosed; cells of capsule 1l-seeded. ©. H. Native of Cali- 
fornia, Douglas. Corollas very like those of C. gracilis. 
Gilia-like Collomia. Pl. 1 foot. 
6 C. eruTINOSsA (Benth. 1. c.) procumbent; leaves deeply 
pinnatifid, almost pinnate; segments oblong-linear, entire, or a 
little cut; calyx nearly 5-parted; stamens longer than the 
corolla; cells of capsule l-seeded. ©. H. Native of Cali- 
fornia, Douglas, Corollas like those of C. gracilis. 
Clammy Collomia. Pl. procumbent. 
7 C. NavannRETIA; leaves pinnately multifid ; segments 
linear-subulate ; flowers capitate, involucrated by numerous 
bracteas; stem downy, simple, or a little branched. ©. H. 
Native of Chili. Navarrétia involucràta, Ruiz. et Pav. fl. per. 
2.p. 8. Segments of calyx furnished with 3 pungent teeth. 
Stamens exserted. Stigma bifid. Capsule 2-celled, few-seeded, 
ex Ruiz. et Pav. l. c. Corolla purple. 
Navarretia Collomia. | Pl. 1 to 1 foot. 
8 C. cnaA'ernis (Benth. l. c.) plant erect, branched, clothed 
with glandular down; leaves lanceolate-oblong, obtuse; calyx 
5-parted ; calycine segments long, subulate ; stamens inclosed ; 
cells of capsule 1-seeded. ©. H. Native of the north-west 
coast of America, on the banks of the Spokan river; and on 
high ground, near Flat Head river, on light soils; and Califor- 
nia, Douglas; Chili, Cuming; &c. Gilia gracilis, Doug. in 
bot. mag, 2924, Lower leaves opposite. Flowers crowded at 
the extremities of the branches, at length elongated into ra- 
cemes. Calyx clothed with black glands. Corolla small, with 
a yellow tube, rose-coloured limb, and oval segments. 
Slender Collomia. Fl. Ju. Oct. Clt. 1826. Pl. 1 foot. 
9 C. CAYANILLESIA'NA ; suffruticose ; leaves pinnate ; leaflets 
long, linear, entire; peduncles axillary, solitary, usually 5- 
flowered; corolla 3 times longer than the calyx, which is 5- 
cleft; cells of capsule 1-seeded. 5. G. Native of Monte 
Video and Buenos Ayres.  Phlóx pinnàta, Cav. icon. 6. p. 
17. t. 528. f. 1. Poir. dict. suppl. 4. p. 397.  Cántua glomeri- 
flora, Juss. ann. mus. 3. p. 119. Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 
368. Flowers disposed in heads, small, cream-coloured. 
Cavanilless Collomia. Pl. 1 to 2 feet. 
‘ult. All the species are of the most easy culture, the seeds 
only requiring to be sown in the open border in spring. Some 
of the kinds are rather showy. 
XI. CALDA‘SIA (named after J. Caldas, a botanist of Santa 
Fe de Bogota.) Willd. hort. berol. 1. p. 71. t. 71. enum. 1. p. 202. 
H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 3. p. 166. D. Don, in edinb. 
phil.journ. Bonplándia, Cav. icon. 6. p. 21. t. 532. 
Lin. syst. — Pentándria, Monogynia. Calyx tubular, 5- 
toothed, equal to the corolla in length. Corolla somewhat funnel- 
shaped, unequal; limb 5-lobed ; lobes cuneated, emarginate. Sta- 
mens 5, equal, inserted in the middle of the tube, declinate, ex- 
serted. Capsule oblong, trigonal; valves membranous; cells 
l-seeded. Seeds oblong, somewhat trigonal, convex outside, 
mucilaginous. Albumen sparing. Radicle hardly shorter than 
the cotyledons.—A much branched, annual, erect herb, clothed 
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XI. Carpasr.. XII, Laszria. 247 
with glandular hairs. Leaves alternate, simple, elliptic-acumi- 
nated, serrated. Flowers axillary, twin, pedicellate, bractless. 
Corolla of a violet-blue colour, or purple. 
1 C. nzrEROPHY'LLA (Willd. l. c.) ©. S. Native of New 
Spain, gathered by Humboldt and Bonpland, in the Botanic 
Garden of Mexico. Bonplandia geminiflora, Cav. l. c. Pers. 
ench. 1. p. 187. Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 370. Leaves 
lanceolate. Corolla an inch long; with linear segments, red 
filaments, and yellow anthers. 
Various-leaved Caldasia. Fl. Ju. Aug. Cit. 1818. Pl. 14 
foot. 
Cult. This plant requires the treatment of other tender 
annuals; that is, the seeds should be sown on a hot-bed, in 
spring, and the plants, when of sufficient size, should be planted 
in separate pots, and placed in the greenhouse during summer. 
XII. LCESE'LIA (so named, by Linnzeus, after John Loesel, 
author of Flora Prussica, 1654, published at Gottsched, with 
additions, in 1703.) Lin. gen. 767. Schreb. gen. no. 1029. 
Geertn. fruct. 1. p. 295. t. 62. Juss. gen. p. 135. Lam. ill. 
527. Royéna, Houston, in phil. trans.— Cántua species, Willd. 
Hoítzia, Juss. gen. ed. Usteri, p. 152. Cav. icon. 4. p. 44. t. 
366, H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 3. p. 162. 
Lin. syst.  Pentándria, Monogynia. Calyx tubular, dry, 5- 
cleft (f. 29. a.), with pungent segments, furnished with 5 lanceo- 
late, pungently mucronate bracteas outside (f. 29. f.) Co- 
rolla funnel-shaped (f. 29. 5.), 8 times longer than the calyx; 
tube a little curved; limb 5-lobed; lobes broadly obovate, en- 
tire. Stamens equal, exserted (f. 29. c.). Capsule trigonal ; cells 
few-seeded ; valves membranously crustaceous. Seeds com- 
pressed, nearly orbicular, girded by a very narrow membrane. 
Albumen sparing. Radicle about equal in length to the cotyle- 
dons.—Stiff, branched shrubs, natives of Mexico; branches 
terete, downy or villous. Leaves alternate, ovate or lanceo- 
late, mucronate, hairy, sharply serrated, reticulately veined, 
cuneated at the base, on very short petioles. Flowers solitary 
or twin, axillary, pedicellate, large, showy, scarlet or violaceous. 
1 L. ciu mA (Lin. spec. 875.) leaves ovate-lanceolate, 
acutely serrated; corymbs many-flowered ; stamens, 4 of which 
are exserted, and the fifth short, seated on the middle of 
the segment ; bracteas roundish-ovate, cordate, ciliately toothed. 
h.G. Native of Vera Cruz. Lam. ill. 527.  Gzertn. fruct. 
1. p. 295. t. 62, f. 3. Stem quadrangular, branched. Flowers 
yellow. Bracteas imbricated. Cells of capsule 2-seeded. 
Ciliated-bractead Loeselia. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 
2 L. coccinea; leaves nearly 
sessile, ovate; flowers axillary, 
solitary, on short peduncles; 
bracteas lanceolate, subserrated, 
veiny, hairy. b. G. Native 
of Mexico, plentiful near Gua- 
naxuato, and elsewhere. ; it is 
also cultivated in the gardens. 
Hoítzia coccínea, Cav. icon. 4. p. 
44. t. 365. H. B. et Kunth, nov. 
gen. amer. 3. p. 162. — Hoítzia 
Mexicana, Lam. dict. 3. p. 134. 
Cántua Hoitzia, Willd. spec. 1. 
p. 878. Cántua coccinea, Poir. 
suppl. 2. p. 80. Bracteas vil- 
lous. Leaves acutely mucro- 
nate, cuneated at the base, sca- 
brous above, and hairy beneath ; 
serratures mucronately awned. 
Calycine segments lanceolate-subulate, 1-nerved. — Corollas 
scarlet, glabrous ; segments of the limb obovate, spreading. 
FIG. 29. 
